Research interests

Analysis of subfossil Cladocera as a method of research into natural environment transformations in biogenic deposits

Natural environment of the Bolivian and Peruvian Altiplano

Positions held and membership

since 2006 – secretary of the Executive Board of the Polish Society for Latin American studies

since 2009 – member of the Past Global Changes PAGES

Other activities

Participation in conferences and scientific seminars

2007 – Geographical sciences in regional research, 56th Congress of the Polish Geographical Society, Institute of Geography, The Świętokrzyska Academy, 29.08-02.09.2007, Kielce (paper entitled Analysis of a content of CaCO3 and organic substance in a core of deposit from the Łukie lake).

2008 – Conference On the Lower Vistula River on the occasion of celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Chełmno and the Lower Vistula River Landscape Park Complexes as well as the 10th anniversary of the Society of Lower Vistula River’s Friends, 14-16.05.2008, Chełmno (participation).

2008 – Scientific seminar Objective and methods of research into biogenic deposits of the Łukie Lake and Spława Peat Bog, Polesie National Park, 26.06.2008, Urszulin (paper entitled Late Glacial and Holocene Cladocera succession in the Lake Łukie litoral zone deposits).

2008 – Natural and anthropogenic lake transformations, 12th Wide-Poland Limnological Conference, The Polish Limnological Society, Department of Limnology - Gdańsk University, Gdańsk Scientific Society, 23-26.09.2008, Gdańsk/Wdzydze Kiszewskie (poster: Record of changes in a core of sediments from the East-South part of the Łukie Lake, based on the analysis of Cladocera remains).

2009 - Vulnerability of large lake ecosystems - Monitoring, management and measures, 2nd European Large Lake Symposium, 10-14 August 2009, Norrtälje, Szwecja (poster entitled Late glacial to Holocene transition recorded in the sediments in the Polish Polesie using the Cladocera analysis).

2009 – 21st Congress of Polish Hydrobiologists, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, the Jan Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Polish Society of Hydrobiology, Branch of Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin, 9-12.09.2009, Lublin (paper entitled Reconstruction of the initial stage of the Łukie Lake development on the basis of analysis of Cladocera remains).

2009 - 11th International Paleolimnology Symposium, 15-18 December 2009, Guadalajara, Mexico (paper: The cold event 8200 years ago documented in subfossil Cladocera from the sediments of lakes from the Tuchola and Polesie Regions (Poland)”; poster: “Late Glacial to Holocene transition recorded in the Lake Łukie sediments).

2010 – International Scientific Conference: Future of hydrogenic landscapes in European Biosphere Reserves, University of Life Sciences, in Lublin, Branch of Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin, the Polesie National Park, 5-7.05.2010, Urszulin (paper entitled Record of Late Glacial to Holocene transition recorded in the sediments of the Polesie National Park lakes based on the analysis of Cladocera sediments).